THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1954.
THE MONDAY PAGE FOUR GETS DOWN TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER..
MISTLETOE MANHUNT
ANNE EDWARDS
AND BRUSILLA BEYFUS ASKING . WHICH ACE MAKES
A MAN AN ACE
OF HEART-THRÖBS ?
РДСК
H MOONLIGH
CHEVALIER: OH PLATTERY
HARRISON ALAB WOOLLY
SARGENT: FANCY D
"Bell, Book Bru Candio" was man with a moist pink, face and coat after four hour rigorous inalding up for the part.
would have
Harrison
Does he find it a strain baloghock of white hair, his eyes rehearsal which
nay other 'man's twinkled overtime and he wrecked charming? "Well, I wouldn't
appearance. fo relaxed in a put it like that," he said, being carcased his words on if he were seat in the stalls, sipping a gloss
itself. " think conscious about to break into singing of charm itse
milk and sugar-This is charm cannot be charming." "Louise."
what keeps me going" ho saló To many women Mr
charmingly, stirring in a lttlo they the dangerous man
Ho kised the lady's hand more sugar.... would adore to moct, the man with a professional tenderness whee natural Letting seems To and a quick sharp glance at her » Blik dressing gown and mariini, the flippant, sophiott- floure. "You want to talks about turning on cated.
Noel Coward charne er Women?" he said,
the Chevalier chuckle and the women with can slay
Chevaller
whimsical quick of the eyebrow
W
THAT is it that
get
who
it
a
nrt e יג
a wilty crack. And when his
out on you, you feel, he walked
order you the he would suvely
drink and flx n taxi.
the girls? Is man's smile or
or чуся voice, his breadth of his shoulders? Is it what he says or is it the
that he looks at way
when he says it?
Is
Walt Rooi
..
be
Alas for the legend. When met him he was in a woolly wo hor
dacaring
gown, homely and human,
that explaining really enjoy a flippant flattery, didn't seres, of the 1-en-get-you. pari so much an a play he could
get his teeth info. n. plctures honey approach"
On the eve of the Christmas play by Christopher FTS party MENISON
Cast eye un four of the most stage Feat successful charmers on the scene ordered a taxi, #xed u, a drink,
the men most girls would like and stride
purposefully out of a party with-to our nie.
the 24
#1
we have
d out just what kind of a he
as that knocks the girls cold.
His look
• Under
Peck (aged 38)
Gregory
scrutiny:
Rain-sudden scarred, streakesi with grease-puini, grey-haired wiped in a binnket and chut-f thick chippercl
mug of
he looked the most Canteen i attractive as by tie world
the his filming We found storm, sequence of "Moby Dick" nt Elstree,
His fine dark ever seemed to say so much, his warm smile strong seemed so laviting, his
lowered s pru brown traine icetively-thun if he didn't say very much it really didn't seem
ter matter.
His
slowly
eyes and his mouth smiled
and surely. He pushed from his fore-
the hair back
heud purposefully, looking down from a great height with a chal-
apset promise.
He wandered forward, hands
in his pocket, looking longingly
well-worn
flattery.
"Well, you're a very pretty giri. txt's talk about you."
His elegance
• Under #crutiny: Sir Mal- calm Bargent, who is 59 but looks astonishingly younger.
like A
Sir Malcolm la a lone wolf in
Easily he chatted on through
his brown eyes the interval, flooded with warmth, his lean, keen face crinkled up in smiles, He talked about his new opera, his tremendous amount of hard ("Some may too hard,"
work. he remarked.)
ERENE MacCOLL turns up in Ireland
and finds you can still get
laugh even if it rains-and it does rain
THERE'S NO
BLARNEY
IN KILLARNEY
C
they all assured me.
we
went and # Low minules later WO were all
RAZY they told. me I one once labelled it blarney, back
was when I said that For blarney is a tiresome, standing inside the field of play
a pretentious word; a phoney again. I was going for motoring holiday in which I bracket with that
SURPRISES. In Mullingar, a -tho Ireland in November. It will other tedious phoney
run-of-the-mill sort of place be too dreadful for words, gemutlichkeit which those about 40 miles west of Diblin, a cathedral. And In stage Austrians are forever there is tossing around. On this trip this enthedral are two very fine mosale murals of St. Patrick And Indeed, tho
Irish I have encountered no blar and St. Anne, designed by Boris
a great deal of
Ex-officer Алгер, Customa man at Rosslare, noy, but where we landed early on a charm and good manners.
morning after grey
Everything seemed to click. monstrously rough passage from Fishguard, with the When we got to Dublin we ask
ed what was on at the Abbey We reminded Sir Malcolm of rain bouncing off everything Theatre, and it turned out to be
ontitled "Is offering atin sight, grinned and said an arrived gather much sunburn during too encouraging,
On he went, obviously doter- mined to show that success had not spoiled him. "I'm told I've a lot of thyroid" he said got modestly.
his eclebrated entrances
An
of the Czar's Imperial Guard, who did those mosaic pavements in the National to London's entrance Gallery.
It was strange, and rather in this quiet moving, to find the
But when he got up to go on the world where it is smart to smart places when the famous that he doubted if we would Priest at Home?" Didn't sound provincial Irish town examples
•
WT
noted be
Suavely
His tenderness
Under
He is clogar be dishevelled beyond wurde, salve, and He is a world-famous polished musician, u yet, one feels,
much a connoisseur of pretty women as of choral music,
We Press
Ingl hin at Covent
133 A square little Garden, immaculate
scrutiny: Maurice Chevaller (aged 68)
We found him at a purly in Paris.
+
Engilsh
He
conductor (anked by two ravishingly pro ty women in mink. Inughed appreciatively, "Two is safer," he said in his winning way.
A fascinating man Maybe a silk shade loo practised.
TRANQUILLISERS
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That's the fancy name for the new souped-up sedatives which 'edgy wives' are taking they? asks
London.
OCTORS are using a word in their consulting
TOUM ---
eating glance full of insolence a word which is n direct out.
of "Pity it's raining
the turmoil of Co modern times.
The termi is "tranquil-
It means a drug de signed to soothe the nerves the overwrought, the of overworked, and the over- anxious.
hit his and he
at the girl he had just met liner". first to If she wrn the dessert island in years was certainly going to make ner This a welcome as he could
mrvellous part to cel," he
moonlight
look spelled
and palm treen, his deep, dark votre hunted at a sheik and a
horse galloping off a. White the night with the gui he loved. Mis hand The stretched Lit
Gud-bye," he said.
His charm
The deinand for tranquilisers is now so enormous that they nre the maje money-spinning products of some manufacturers
$21 Ambe.ng preserbet the Health Service are someringt as mon and more patients
The docters
recopil "nervous
Alkul Coses
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[1:5
tit
tretinps
CHAPMAN
new drug
but should PINCHER
Others, such as the ruserpine, Bre
ined from plants.
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fteseipe, extracted from Itaders herti, was regularly taken in a crude form by Gandhi and is believed to have been largely his astonishing responsable for composure.
It is being used as a highly lowering successful agent for
burt ila main blood pressure, medical and financial future semns to be as tranquilliser.
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Some danufacturers are even making tranquiliser mixtures designed to bring about physical relaxation of the muscles as well as inental calm,
Et the treatment of clear-cut d.orders tranquilliset s three in bebig are of proved value but some Under scrutiny: Rex Bar-patient in every
told that his symptomz are doctors are already werning tat risen (aged 46)
purely "psychosomatte" the re- they are being given to far tom The man who is paid to bult of nervous tension nos of male, neuple s "conlentinent charming hightly as the star of any delectable organte disorder. capsules,**
ORDERS ACCEPTED
FOR RESETTING ALSO
JADES DIAMONDS
exclusively styled
in
Jewels
by Paramount Traders
222, HONG KONG HOTEL BUILDING.
For these people a tranquilliser is becoming an essential part t the treaunent,
Tranquilisers are "Suuped-up" sedatives with a threet action on
central The
nervous system. They are supposed to calm fear und anxiety wilbout causing drowsiness.
In strength and They range risk-from drugs which can be bought over lie chemist's count-
ter to agents so dangerous that even hospitals avoid using them unless absolutely neceSSUTY,
דזיי
Saud
one
Rive
London specialist: Is bad medicine to
the harassed tranquilisers to housewife whose real need is an understanding husband. and to the business MAN whose real need is less worit."
Hit tranquilisers have clearly eone to stay. Their wide appeal undoubtedly means that we shal bec.me still more a nation of compulsive tablet-takers, in decade already well qualified to be called the Aspirin Age,
The Ole Blind Mole
TURST catch your mole. Then make it atomic by putting a radioactive bangle on its tail. And you can then find out if your mole has rhythm,
Some are synthetle, Нке methyl-pentynol, the so-called which is "confidence drug" being taken as an anti-jitter pill candidates, examination dental patients, and business executives about to attend board Mrs
by
A moles-have-rhythm girl is
Gillian Crowcroft,
who
werkes for Sorlety.
Landn
Zoological
She release the moles and their underground then tracks inoverments
with an atom ray
defertur fxed to the end of a #shing rod.
The rays given off by the tall-bangles penetrate the soll and un picked up by the detector.
our stay.
sear
terriac.
can't say
preserved only
are now
museum
In the classic tradition of tho want but we
religious mosaics of Russia such anyway-and were rewarded by as I had admired in the Kremlin some acting that was I'd say that the cast was about est spring. Moving and hearten- know that these not in the same class as the best in ico, to
which ancient arts, The prospects did
What French actors, and 1 nuspicious.
fairer than that might be described as the side of Public Reintions Ireland has somehow never succeeded in touching a responsivo chord in Mac- Coll's high-pitched tenur
Like fifty years ago
You
voices singing of the Lake put a doljup of Irish whiskey
Ever tried Gaelic coffee?
of Killarney,
shamrocks,
into a glass with hot coffee and bog-bound banshees all sugar: and on top of that you amidgen of whipped cream. these failed signally to ap- lay
little
peal. And on the short list Three or four of those and you
feeling singularly alu of things which I am deter- pain.... mined never to klas, the Blarney Stone comes very near the top.
My first visit....
it's charming
Itself, ure
pieces Inside Hússia part of the living Church uway to the West.
far
POLITICS. I kept off them
But since this was a holiday.
I
a strange echo cropped up. drove one day out to the x- treme western fringes of Gal- way, lonely and lovely-where, If I had gone
i any further
into the would have toppled Atlantic.
Q who
nowadays into
In a little red-roofed cottage (ver a sandy
I found bay rther i: mous Irishman
has withdrawa Some of the prices, too, are
Out in almost painless.
the feelation. west, the Galway Bay oysters are 64. each, which these days is practically Utopian.
Almost
manik
a
ог
He has no telephone or electric iight or running water, and proglous few neigh- And I saw W bours. He prefers it that way. u perfect Georg gian house, built
He is affable and smiling and around 1750, in good condition,
sold for bla which had just been
la the gentlest £800 free-hold.
like imaginable. His eyesight is good and two huge So you had the situation looking at the advertisements ut none ton
foot magnifying-glasses that a character who didn't 50 years ago, lan't 117..
inore in diameter, were features think he was going to like
But there's always something of the simply-furnished Uving- Ireland much anyway was to worry about overywhere you room.
the people who do visiting it for the first time go, and so (if you don't count a couple the worrying are staying awake
night over She knows when the dete-of bleary-eyed breakfasts at land's population is not fel- for is right over an atomic Shannon Airport ол the lowing the world trend. molt because earphones start
way back from the U.S.) rustling Bike a machine
Downwards is its direction,
AS we sat beside the peat fro Then she marks the mole's path and at the worst period of
with Ultes such as talking of an episode of Anglo- the year. Madness. And so? and books
Vanishing Irish
are Irish history which took place So I am now in the midst whizzing from the presses,
that working of what, is, by all odds, one would say M you forget tingly, why he had not the in out the detalled rhythm of the of the most enjoyable holi- about statistles and just con- tervened, for a friend of his was
with numbered pegs,
Mrs Crowcroft is
gun.
much time it molc's life-how
feeding. ve es faCH day sleeping, and looking after its young
ir al-
at
The
fect.
the fact that
Ireland
SC-
Living with memories
In 1910 asked him unthink-
cen cate en enjoymen., days I have ever had.
and involved. today population-wise-is per
You can drive for hours
"Oh, but you 600," he re- It has raimed, of course; and hardly see another soul. minded me with a twinkle, "I and the palm trees (for And when you encounter
was on the run then." ireland has her palms as other car-it's an event. well as her peat) often look "The ability to keep most continuous contact with as if they would never get u mole means that a start can dry again. And an after- problems," dusk drive from Tralee to be made on these
in she reports
the
journal Limerick was A bit of an Nature. "Lanz
pericds
a few continuous observation have re- ordeal because only vealed the nature of the mole's of the cyclists and none of activity rhythm,"
the pedestrians or cows carried reflectors. And in looking.)
Reason for the fishing rod is
to stop the mods knowing that Galway we couldn't get to it is being followed. Moles are sleep until 8 a.m.
on
RC-
80 sensitive to vibration hot count of the celebration they could delect even Mrs banquet which the teams in Crowcroft's dainty footsteps the finals of the Gaelic foot overhead.
ball competition were hold- The bangle is made of nickeling at the hotel. and carries a small brass con- a little radio- tainer holding active cobalt,
But
The Irish have not vanished
Anyway, the Irish haven't vanished yet by a long coal (And those that are still around are apt to be remarkably good-
In order to demonstrate that they haven't vanished, they turned out in solid numbers to Goelle football watch those finds at Galway, Gaelic football being
a sort of amalgam of Rugby, Association and basket-
ball
It
was lively stuff and wo amali there are things compared with the were standing there amid a mob shouting fans, and presently along and asked Mru Crowcroft is antisfied beauty, the uncrowdedness, a man came
are not In- the friendliness and the us to move back. I suppose wo that the moles Jured by the activity. Nor lg it dangerous to any cats an atomic mole
slight radio- charm. Charm is what looked surprised because he
standing about twenty "yarda fox or badger which comes naturally to the Irish, explained politely that we were
the field of play. and it is a pity that some inside
And so he was..... "On the run." . This cheerful
groy- haired chap, plump now, and so shortsighted that ho keeps his spectacles permanently fastened to his head with an elastic band, was very much "wanted" about 40 years ago, Photograph and description appeared regularly. A reward. if he'd been turned in.... "On the run,”
Q
A
Times is a mocker of passions,
loveller of heroes, and maker of blends. The mar who had been on the run thuse four decades back roached costly for the kettle and fussed with the lamp....
Memories are the only things which stalk him how, Dimming. memories,
Outside, as I left, the last of ‹ the daylight flung its fading like a
threadbare dramaties quilt over the quiet hillside..
I mean to come back “to” So Ireland. Often,
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THAT TREK GOES INTO REVERSE.....
out
WELL, as envisaged on this page a few days ago, Whitehall followed Moscow's' and turfed example
its millions of "able-bodied and redundant officials," packed them off to the vast industrial areas.of the North and put them to "material and productive work.” There was only one small snag. By placing there" millions of : redundant officials in jobs in the North, millions of able-bodied workers already there became
"There is no such thing as unemployment while', we are in power," said a spokesman of the able-bodied government In! charge at the time. "The solution is simple."
And forthwith the able-bodied and redundant workers of the North were put to material and productive work in Whitehall.. (but thours and laughin' from, both sides,
of the House!
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